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Lean Tips Edition #99 (Tips #1486 – 1500)0
- Lean Tips
- August 15, 2016
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Lean Quote: Address the Root Cause 0
- Lean Quote
- August 12, 2016
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Recognition: Best Leadership Communication Posts 0
- A Lean Journey
- August 10, 2016
Communication skills within an organization are vitally important to their success. Marci Reynolds of The Operations Blog recently published a list of the 10 Best Leadership Communication Posts from 2016. A Lean Journey’s post Communication is the Glue made the top of the list. Leadership Communication: Image by by Stuart Miles, FreeDigitalPhotos.net From Marci: I believe that
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Seven Best Poka-Yoke Devices 0
- Lean Basics, Quality
- August 8, 2016
Generally the most effective way to achieve quality is to avoid having defects in the first place. It is much less costly to prevent a problem from ever happening than it is to find and correct the problem after it has occurred. Focusing on prevention activities whose purpose is to reduce the number of defects
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Lean Quote: Great Things are Done by a Series of Small Things Brought Together 0
- Lean Quote
- August 5, 2016
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Lean Do’s and Don’ts 0
- Lean Basics
- August 3, 2016
Implementing Lean, or any change initiative is difficult. If it wasn’t, everyone would be doing it, and they’re not. Lean is not easy. It’s not easy to understand. It’s not easy to implement. And it’s especially not easy to sustain. But anyone who has embarked on a so-called lean journey already knows this. Lean, in
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